The Aadhar card will be optional for availing various welfare schemes of the government, the Supreme Court said on Tuesday and ordered that no personal information of the holders of such cards shall be shared by any authority.
A three-judge bench, which in the forenoon referred to a larger constitution bench a batch of petitions challenging the Aadhar scheme and the issue whether the right to privacy is a fundamental right, recorded the statement of Attorney General Mukul Rohatgi that “no personal information of the Aadhar card shall be shared by any authority”.
The bench, headed by Justice J Chelameswar, which issued a slew of directions, said the Centre shall give wide publicity through electronic and print media that the card is not mandatory to avail the government schemes.
The Aadhar card will be optional for availing various welfare schemes of the government, the Supreme Court said on Tuesday and ordered that no personal information of the holders of such cards shall be shared by any authority.
A three-judge bench, which in the forenoon referred to a larger constitution bench a batch of petitions challenging the Aadhar scheme and the issue whether the right to privacy is a fundamental right, recorded the statement of Attorney General Mukul Rohatgi that “no personal information of the Aadhar card shall be shared by any authority”.
The bench, headed by Justice J Chelameswar, which issued a slew of directions, said the Centre shall give wide publicity through electronic and print media that the card is not mandatory to avail the government schemes.